Gordon Parks

Stokely Carmichael and Black Power

Lisa Volpe, Cedric Johnson, Cedric Johnson

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English

Steidl Verlag
30 November 2022

Individual photographers

Gordon Parks' 1967 Life magazine essay

Whip of Black Power

is a nuanced profile of the young and controversial civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Carmichael gained national attention and inspired media backlash when he issued the call for Black Power in Greenwood, Mississippi, in June 1966. Parks, on contract with Life, shadowed him from the fall of 1966 to the spring of 1967, as Carmichael gave speeches, headed meetings and promoted the growing Black Power movement. Parks' photos and writing addressed Carmichael's intelligence and humor in equal measure, presenting the whole man behind the headline-making speeches. In his finely draw n sketch of a leader and a movement, Parks reveals his own advocacy of Black Power and its message of self-determination and love.

Stokely Carmichael and Black Power delves into Parks' groundbreaking presentation of Carmichael, and provides a detailed analysis of his images and accompanying text about the charismatic leader. Essays by Lisa Volpe and Cedric Johnson shed critical new light on the subject: Volpe explores Parks' complex understanding of the movement and its leader, and Johnson frames Black Power within the heightened social and political moment of the late 1960s. Carmichael's own voice is represented through a reproduction of his important essay

What We Want

from September 1966.

Text by: Cedric Johnson, Cedric Johnson
Edited by: Lisa Volpe
Imprint: Steidl Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 290mm, Width: 250mm,
Weight: 1.400kg
ISBN: 9783969990940
ISBN 10: 3969990947
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 30 November 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was a photographer, filmmaker, musician and author whose 50-year career focused on American culture, social justice, the civil rights movement and the Black American experience. Born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, Parks was awarded the Julius Rosenwald Fellowship in 1942, which led to a position with the Farm Security Administration. In 1969 he became the first Black American to write and direct a major feature film, The Learning Tree, and his next directorial endeavour, Shaft (1971), helped define a film genre.

Reviews for Gordon Parks: Stokely Carmichael and Black Power

A visually charged deep-dive of a book that reveals dozens of Parks' remarkable outtakes, along with his contact sheets and his typewritten manuscript for the story.--Bill Shapiro Esquire It does much to contextualize Carmichael's media image as less of a misunderstanding than a coordinated attack by white elites spooked at the prospect of Blacks having any power not directly sanctioned by them.--J. Howard Rosier New York Magazine: Vulture